diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/geo-bounding-box-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/geo-bounding-box-query.asciidoc
index 3fb6c11181a1..5d132ee90bcd 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/geo-bounding-box-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/geo-bounding-box-query.asciidoc
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ intersect a bounding box.
 [discrete]
 [[geo-bounding-box-query-ex]]
 ==== Example
-Assume the following the following documents are indexed:
+Assume the following documents are indexed:
 
 [source,console]
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